One afternoon in the not too distant future I’m going to get out front and pollard my golden privets. It’s a good thing I garden with clothes on, pollarding can be painful. Pollarding started out in ...

Pollarding is a type of severe pruning that results in a dense growth of branches at the pruning site instead of its naturally shaped crown. Last fall, I decided to pollard a catalpa tree to re-create ...

Q. We have nine mulberry trees that were pollarded in the past. Because pollarding causes many long branched to develop, I am wondering what the best pruning practice would be for maintaining the ...

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Most arborists insist that pollarding is horticulturally incorrect. However, most of us who pollard trees in our home gardens are not arborists. Horticulturist Tony Tomeo can be contacted at ...